Diplo and Lil Jon Working Together

All together now: YEAHHHHhhh!!!

It had to happen eventually. Both superstar DJ Diplo and rapper/producer/years-old Dave Chappelle joke Lil Jon exist primarily to help drunk people have fun at clubs, both are virulently hated in certain circles, both are inordinately fond of using gunshot sound effects as percussion, and bothTwitter way too often. So a Lil Jon/Diplo meeting of the minds was pretty much inevitable.

Posted with basically no context, the screen-grab sent Pitchfork's crack news team digging through both Diplo and Lil Jon's respective Twitters to try and find out what the hell was going on. We learned that digging through Diplo and Lil Jon's Twitters is a pretty good way to make your eyebrows hurt. (Sample Lil Jon Twitter posts: "@frankichan YEAHHHHhhh," "MAN THIS IS BULL TWIT!" Those are consecutive posts.)

A Lil Jon Tweet from Saturday night did indeed help to clear things up: "OK JUS LEF LADY GAGA SHOW. WAS TLKN 2 KANYE N PEREZ HILTON BK STAGE. DIFFERENT! NOW I'M @ HARD FEST WIT DIPLO! LES GOOOOO!" Lil Jon did indeed hang around the DJ booth with Diplo during the latter's set at the L.A. dance party HARD, where this happened. Further Tweets from both, however, were less illuminating. (Lil Jon, perplexingly: "no more church shoes diplo!" Diplo: "@LILJIZZEL DIPLO HERE TOO!!!")

Thankfully, Diplo's publicist was able to clear things up for us. She told us that the two are working together on material for the next Lil Jon album. This is pretty good news! Lil Jon has been trapped in label hell for a few years. He's finally landed at Universal Republic, but he hasn't scored a hit since 2006's "Snap Yo Fingers". Maybe Diplo can give him a "Paper Planes".

In other Diplo news, we reported last week that Major Lazer, his dancehall project with fellow producer Switch, will release their debut, Guns Don't Kill People-- Lazers Do, on June 16 via Downtown. And on March 20, this coming Friday, he and A-Track will DJ a set together at the 4th Annual Pitchfork/Windish Austin Bash. Given that Lil Jon will also be in Austin for SXSW, it's anyone's guess what'll happen.